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1:31:52–1:32:09 Registered 1938

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:31:561:31:56Frame at 1:32:041:32:04

Play from 1:31:52 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 108 · shots 577–578. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2
People
  • man wearing a dark fedora and dark coat, seen from the back visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a fedora enters a building through a glass door. [frame:1]
  • The interior of the building is shown, featuring arched colonnades and a tiled floor. [frame:2]
Seen
sign reading 'French Line', sign reading 'STEAMSHIP TICKETS', glass door with metal frame, arched colonnades, tiled floor, wooden ceiling structure
On screen
[{'text': 'French Line', 'frame': 1}, {'text': 'STEAMSHIP TICKETS', 'frame': 1}, {'text': 'DE NA', 'frame': 1}]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral, transactional; themes: travel, commerce, transitional space; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, deep space in interior shot

A man in a fedora enters a building with a 'French Line' sign. The interior shows arched colonnades and a tiled floor, suggesting a public terminal or station.

The record

No renewal found An automated finding, not a verdict. A renewal would have appeared in the Copyright Office's renewal registrations 27 to 29 years after the term began. Those volumes are loaded and our parse of them found no matching renewal. If that is right, a work published 1931–1963 that was not renewed entered the public domain at the end of its 28th year; the volumes are OCR of old print, and the method page reports how often the parse has been found to miss one. Evidence dossier. The finding concerns the US copyright record for the film; it is not clearance for any use, and this page's annotation is machine output.

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Frame from Algiers (1938) at 1:31:56 (passage 1:31:52–1:32:09); US record: No renewal found

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